andave's place

Hey all!

It's been a while, hasn't it? I hope you are all well and happy. I am . Life is good. I made it through my first semester of college. I'm a little wonky though. I'm really tired, and I didn't get in till midnight - which is 3 AM in Virginia. So between jet lag and exhaustion from finals and all that I'm still not entirely here. And I think I'm getting sick .

But I'm so happy to be home!! (or I will be, once I'm in my right mind ). We're watching a movie now - Night at the Museum 2 - though my mom is asleep and my dad's halfway asleep. I saw this about a week ago, but they got it because I'm here, so I'm pretending I can't hear the siren call of my bed.

Finals ended on Tuesday for me. So I got home midnight Thursday after an uneventful flight, although I was stuck in the middle seat. I had one guy who seemed to be petrified of flying on one side of me and an Asian lady who either slept or watched tv on the other.

Bulletproof's changed a bit since I left. Grown taller and smarter and wayyyy wittier. She can run me in circles so badly it's not even funny . Friday morning, she had a Round Robin speech tournament, which is the last practice round before qualifiers begin next year. She's doing a speech on Lebanon and it's shaping up to be quite impressive .

So, life at PHC. In a nutshell, it's awesome. It is genuinely rigorous, but it's fully in line with the way I view education and knowledge and learning. And of course, with the scholar I want to be. I had some awesome professors (except for that dratted one with the paper) and I'm so excited about going on with them next semester. (I'll talk about my classes next blog because I'm too sleepy to collect my thoughts).

So night and day we work and go to chapel and to classes and run ragged - but it's GOOD!